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Monday, May 23, 2011

The Pan-European web of Islamist organizations, linked either with extremist rhetoric or actions, is not only a nexus between organizations, NGO’s and individuals based in several countries and adhering to a common set of beliefs, but also an international complex structure that requires constant monitoring and analysis before it is possible to pin point the exact nature of its activities.

The following brief will summarize a few aspects of the aforementioned, in order to provide clues for a more detailed research and to emphasize the complexity of the issue.

According to sources from the Jihad Watch service, the Islamic movement in Spain for instance, is largely powered by a group of approx 1000-1500 native Spanish converts who know how to work the system better and are more organised than the immigrant Muslims.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

The Islamic arch in the making (Originally published on the 14th of March 2009)

Over the 1990′s one of the most popular theories regarding the changing nature of the Balkan affairs, was the existence of the “Islamic arch” or the “Green traverse” stretching from Turkey up to Croatia that would unite all the Balkan Muslim communities into a single force, subject to control by either Turkey or the Middle Eastern Sunni powers and the Shiite Iran as well.

The years after 9/11 many of such Islamic networks that were also connected with international terrorism, were disband. Moreover this particular theory faded away from the mainstream media, although it is still a reality that is being pursued by various Islamic circles.

This present article will briefly provide the most important events of this Balkan Islamic arch project that are related to terrorism.